I’m running an rsync daemon on rsync.opensuse-education.org to allow mirror servers to download packages and ISO images via this nice protocol. As openSUSE-Education will be participating on the IPv6 day, I thought it might be a good idea to let rsync also run on the according IPv6 address of the server.

But (as always) simply adding the IPv6 address to the configuration is not enough to be successful. So here is my current configuration that is stored in /etc/xinetd.d/rsync (yes: I’m running the rsync server via the xinetd):